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ALL Android TV Problem.

fackir4o — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:36:10 GMT

ALL Android TV Problem (KD-43XG8096) very small subtitle, DTS problem, CIFS and SMB problem.

The TV is very good but has a slight annoying flaws. The built-in video player does not support CIFS and SMB network feed protocols (they are not embedded in it and other programs must be used), but most of all please fix the subtitle issue. They are very small. Please make sure that at the next Update we can choose between 3-4 sizes at least and, or make them as big as we want.

There are quite a few people in non-English speaking countries who do not speak English and only use subtitles to watch movies. This will help a lot of countries like Bulgaria, Russia, Greece and many other countries.

Nowadays, watching movies on the home network is becoming more common. I don't have a friend who uses flash memory or a hard drive to watch movies on TV. Either DLNA or more NAS and Windows sharing is used.

I'm currently using KODI, but unfortunately only supports Dolby. No DTS. I made subtitles there for my taste. Other players, including MX Player Pro, do not play all formats. Only the built-in player and KODI have this feature, which differs mainly from the following:

KODI:

+ All formats,

+ CIFS and SMB,

+Dolby,

-DTS, -> FIX - the problem is solved with the latest manual update of Android 8.0 Oreo.

+ select subtitle size.

Sony VIDEO:

+ All formats,

+ Dolby,

+ DTS,

- CIFS and SMB,

- small subtitles.

* + Supports, * - Does not support.

Please fix this BIG, BIG problem.

Please refer this request to whom it depends.

Best regards Dian Dimitrov, Varna, Bulgaria.

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Kuschelmonschter — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 14:05:08 GMT

@fackir4o schrieb:
Nowadays, watching movies on the home network is becoming more common.

People tend to believe that what they do is trend. I happen to own a NAS with quite some media on it myself. But it has always been niche. Even more so after streaming services like Netflix took over.

I'm currently using KODI, but unfortunately only supports Dolby. No DTS.

Oreo firmware for BRAVIA introduced support for the public Android DTS API. Works very well inside Kodi.

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fackir4o — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 20:13:05 GMT

You are wrong. Does not support DTS!
And the netflix in my country is at the cost of 100 megabits internet, which is expensive and there are no subtypes, so the service is not polar. We use HBO GO. I am attaching a photo of the latest version of KODI with audio outputs.

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Kuschelmonschter — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 20:24:28 GMT

Then you do not have Oreo on your BRAVIA. DTS works beautifully for me.

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fackir4o — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 23:02:38 GMT

Very strange. The automatic update tells me I'm on the latest Android, but it turned out not to be the case. I downloaded the last one from the site and fixed my KODI DTS problem. I'll test it tomorrow. Everything looks better than the interface. Thanks friend, it helped me.
The issue with the subtitle of the built-in player remains to be resolved and everything will be perfect.

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fackir4o — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 11:12:10 GMT

DTS Problem for KODI fix - the problem is solved with the latest manual update of Android. The automatic does not work !!! Android 8 - Oreo.
The problem remains with the built-in player. Small subtitles, no CIFS and SMB support. With that aside, the player plays all the formats I've tried ... It's worth adding these options. It only sees DLNA, and the subtitles are in black, which is even worse.I suggest SONY put on 2-3 diopter glasses for free on TVs ha ha ha.

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fackir4o — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:46:41 GMT

Films of this size don't play them at all (25-60 GB size).

Only my 4-year-old Samsung, without thinking, plays them. While my new Sony 2019 model does not want to play them in any way.
Media file info from PC:
Full Name:\\192.168.0.1\Data\Филми\Anna.2019.UHD.BluRay.2160p.TrueHD.Atmos.7.1.HEVC.mkv
Format :Matroska
Format version :Version 4 / Version 2
Size :58.8GB
Time :1, 58 min
TotalBit Speed :70.7 MB / sec
Film :Anna 4K
Library_Encoding:libebml v1.3.9 + libmatroska v1.5.2

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fackir4o — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 14:44:24 GMT

Things are getting better after the next steps are done.
1. Required update to the latest (currently Android 8.0).
2. After the update necessarily RESET TV.

So big format movies are going, but I am annoyed by the fact that I have to download external applications to watch a movie online. As I mentioned before the built-in player does not support CIFS and SAMBA.
KODI is a very confused program. It was made in my opinion to be something like the OS. Countless unnecessary tinctures to get lost in and only watch a movie through your home network ...

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rooobb — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:38:31 GMT

@fackir4o ha scritto:

Films of this size don't play them at all (25-60 GB size).

Only my 4-year-old Samsung, without thinking, plays them. While my new Sony 2019 model does not want to play them in any way.
Media file info from PC:
Full Name:\\192.168.0.1\Data\Филми\Anna.2019.UHD.BluRay.2160p.TrueHD.Atmos.7.1.HEVC.mkv
Format :Matroska
Format version :Version 4 / Version 2
Size :58.8GB
Time :1, 58 min
TotalBit Speed :70.7 MB / sec
Film :Anna 4K
Library_Encoding:libebml v1.3.9 + libmatroska v1.5.2

You can use a lot of different players with different UI in Android TV (I prefer Nova Player i.e.).

Looking at the specification of the file you are trying to play a movie with lossless audio track that is not supported by the TV.

BTW are you aware that is illegal to download copyrighted material? I do not think it is in the community rules permitted to discuss how to play those on a product, unless this is a copy of an UHD bluray you own and it is better in any case that you play it via the UHD BD player you should have

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Kuschelmonschter — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:42:23 GMT

@rooobb schrieb:
@fackir4o ha scritto:
Films of this size don't play them at all (25-60 GB size).
Only my 4-year-old Samsung, without thinking, plays them. While my new Sony 2019 model does not want to play them in any way.
Media file info from PC:
Full Name:\\192.168.0.1\Data\Филми\Anna.2019.UHD.BluRay.2160p.TrueHD.Atmos.7.1.HEVC.mkv
Format :Matroska
Format version :Version 4 / Version 2
Size :58.8GB
Time :1, 58 min
TotalBit Speed :70.7 MB / sec
Film :Anna 4K
Library_Encoding:libebml v1.3.9 + libmatroska v1.5.2

Looking at the specification of the file you are trying to play a movie with lossless audio track that is not supported by the TV.

Kodi is able to decode TrueHD to stereo PCM (via ffmpeg) or extract AC3 core (if it exists) and do Passthrough for that.

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rooobb — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:44:12 GMT

@Kuschelmonschter but he doesn't like KODI and desire that Video could do that...

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fackir4o — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:06:02 GMT

Guys, you don't understand the essence of the problem.
1. Built-in video and audio software is greatly restricted from networking capabilities. For some reason, they do not address these issues with connectivity to other devices through a LAN. We need to use other external programs, which I do not like. If you use 10 types of audio and video format, at least 2-3 players should be used and NEVER, you will NEVER be able to play everything with one player. A specific example. KODI plays many formats but DTS WAV doesn't want it. It stops working so much that I have to restart the TV.
2. My idea of buying Android TV is to watch movies and listen to music of the highest quality I can find, not transcode. If I wanted to transcode I would not buy movies and music of this quality and I would just search them on torrent sites of whatever quality I found.

I'm very disappointed with the TV. If I knew it was so bad, I would buy a cheap TV and an amd ryzen computer next to it, which is where everything goes ....

On my computer, all this goes smoothly with the POT Player.

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rooobb — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:34:20 GMT

I don't know your specific need for 2/3 different players (i use mainly Video via DLNA and Nova for my daughter since it is much user friendly), but in any case are you aware that only on ANdroid you can do that? If you have any other smart system (name the one you prefer ... tizen, webos?) you are stuck with the player they deliver: you have tizen and there is no way to have DTS i.e., you may have problem going back and forward in a mkv file... and you can't do anything about it.

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fackir4o — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:36:30 GMT

There may be no DTS which is very important, but everything works fine! Everything, absolutely everything I tried!

The topic is getting out of hand ... It may seem like I'm getting stuck, but it's not. If I left that impression I apologize.
I can only summarize my experience with android tv.

It's not worth it to buy android tv. It is better for me to buy a cheaper TV with a nice matrix and an external small video computer to support 4K hardware decoding (Intel Intel NUC 7i5BNH). Video must be min Intel 630 or similar AMD.
Everything else is a big compromise with your nerves.
This is my opinion and I do not want to involve anyone with any dispute about this opinion.

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rooobb — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 11:42:56 GMT

I may agree with you, but keep in mind that the best "monitor" come with an OS in anycase! I am not aware of any top brand TV strimmed of all the smart functionalities, only the lower end models. So you can still buy the tv as it is and once you don't like it any more add whatever smart box you prefer to it

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fackir4o — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 23:00:24 GMT

Some who have the model (KD-43XG8096) have any problems with constant freeze. In the sense of 10 days it works and after turning it off working the evening of the next day, it does not want to be started in any way until I disconnect it from the power for 5 seconds.
What can be the problem?
One thing I found on my own was that an app downloaded by the market was freeze it to such an extent that it did not respond in any way. It stops altogether.
This app is from my ip tv provider.
But more generally, when I hit, as I said in about 7-10 days, TV was used as a monitor. In the sense of an ip tv box, a signal is emitted.
Could it be defective?